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    On 12/19/2023 at 4:39 PM, Enrico_sw said:

     

    Probably true and China's CCP is a terrible dictatorship.

     

    What's your issues with China?

     

    From what I've observed it seems to functional more as a hypercapitalist and hypermaterialist country with social benefits combined authoritarian leadership (both political and economic) by an elite party class/technocracy.  The population like other east asian countries is unusually submissive, obedient and hard working to a fault.  Not a country for individualists or people who value their free time.

     

    China is not at all comparable to North Korea even though they are allies.

     

    In a way if a country can be seen as an organism, the Chinese is the biggest and most economically aggressive one in the world.  Time will tell if it become more militarily aggressive as its military power rises.

     

    As an industrialized economy I think that theirs is mostly composed of producing tangible things of value (like the US before the 1970s), rather than B.S. jobs and inflation in the West.

     

    Once China struggles with keeping up its rapid economic growth, the chances of it using military power will increase.  The economic integration with Russia is rapidly accelerating, the Russians give them oil & gas, and minerals in exchange for technologies and manufactured goods.

     

    The war in Ukraine is (to paraphase Lenin) is an event that has made the past 2 years feel like 10 or more years geopolitically.

    On 12/22/2023 at 7:04 AM, Enrico_sw said:

     

    I agree it's JJ's fault as well, but I put his farcical contribution to failure as a secondary cause.

     

    Star Wars is mostly a casualty of the culture wars and, to this day, I'm still disgruntled about it.

     

    Besides the many failures, they should have made a new story structure instead of repeating the heroes' journey in the original with a woke/post-modern take.